For those of you that do come to my site I am sorry for not getting my website up and running. I started classes yesterday and last week I was down with a flare up. I have some things compiled it’s just putting rhem on the website so they are available to view correctly and easily to ready. I dont want it to be a disorganized mess and I honestly am not sure how to put it on my website. It is like a glossary and I have one plug in for documents but I think using this plugin for that information it might slow things down too much but I am not sure. So I have been searching for a way to keep things optimized on here as well. So I think this is just going to take me time. I might recruit others for help. So don’t give up on me just yet!
Month: July 2026
Noticing a Problem
*Please note that I am going to leave out personal or private information. I was my mother’s caregiver too. In the beginning there wasn’t any test that forewarned us mom had cancer. It was just a typical evening and my dad had noticed something on her neck. She had long thick hair and I dont know how I missed this lump on her neck. But dad asked me to look at it and I just knew what it was. So, in the morning I called her doctor and got her in the same day. We ended up getting a biopsy which took time. It was stage 3 cancer of her neck. This is an aggressive form of cancer that tends to be fatal. But we got her into a really aggressive treatment plan which worked and she went into remission. We thought the worst was behind her and us. But and there’s always a but. She had a CT scan and it had developed in her lungs. So back into more chemotherapy and now we were talking immunotherapy. We went to this patient education appointment on this immunotherapy and I honestly felt like they were trying to either sell me a timeshare or crack. Which made me extremely uncomfortable about mom doing this treatment. But mom wanted to try everything and I respected her choice. Even when you have a medical power of attorney you dont get to do what you want. But I had a lot of power to make sure things were done right. Getting the treatment was a challenge. The medication costs 100k a year per patient. But there’s things like grants that can cover costs if insurance doesn’t cover all of it. I am going to stop here and pick up on the next post.
Change in Plans
I have been working on adding articles to the knowledge base but yesterday I realized that I was going in the wrong direction already. I thought back to the journey with my mom when she was diagnosed with cancer. The things she experienced if I wasn’t constantly with her, the way she didn’t understand things, and so much more. She is the reason behind this website and every educational milestone I achieve. So while I am adding things I will tell you her story. Some of it was a battle between me and her oncology clinic, oncologist and more. Maybe her journey will help you or someone you love.
Still Working
I am still working on adding things even though I haven’t made them visible. You will see some with the same dates because they are when I have added them to my knowledge base. But I am close to being able to at least make those articles viewable. Give me a few more days and I should be there.